Police suspect American took train to dump corpse

Arturo Norris

Surveillance footage from one of the Osaka condominiums showed the man and missing woman entering the building. Sources cited by Kyodo said a large amount of air freshener had been used inside the apartment but no blood had been found.

The arms and legs appeared to have been severed with a sharp knife. The site and others reported that the American had denied any knowledge of what happened to the woman, whose name was not released.

"Although the body parts have yet to be positively identified, police suspect they are from the missing woman", says The Asahi Shimbun. Police believe the parts belong to the same woman, the outlet reported.

The arms were found laying side-by-side under a light covering of soil about 1,800 feet from where the torso was buried in the mountains of Shimamoto, a town in the Osaka Prefecture, according to the newspaper. However, the woman was not found inside.

The Yomiuri ShimbunSevered body parts have been found in locations indicated by an American man, the Hyogo prefectural police announced Monday.

Both the NY man and the woman were spotted together on security footage at the JR Morinomiya Station in Osaka around midnight on Friday, Feb. 16, just hours before she went missing.

Video records from security cameras and other devices showed that Bayraktar went in and out of the Higashinari condominium several times carrying a large travel bag on February 18.

The woman's head was found Saturday in a suitcase at a short-term lodging facility, or minpaku, in the Nishinari ward of the city of Osaka, investigators told the local news media.

Bayraktar was the last person seen with the 27-year-old victim.

Friends told police that the woman said she was going to meet an American she met online. The police have not officially released the name of the suspect, though it has been widely reported in the Japanese news media. She went missing on February 16th.

Investigative sources have confirmed that four or five other women arrived at the Higashinari residence while the suspect resided there, according to Fuji News Network (Feb. 25).

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